TimesWatch

NYT Set Up Obama's Speech by Pitting 'Unyielding' Netanyahu vs. 'Reasonable' Palestinians

From the Times' lead story: "Diplomatic momentum has been with the Palestinians for several years, with their leadership and requests viewed as reasonable and Mr. Netanyahu as unyielding....the ...

Gail Collins Rips GOP for Sexual Hypocrisy, Lauds 'How Much Everybody Loves Bill Clinton'

Gail Collins talks Schwarzenegger's love child on Rachel Maddow's show: "...there are people, a lot of people in the country who not only have very strong, you know, family values, but believe ...

Times Employs Same Loaded 'Big Oil' Terminology as Liberal Democrats

A tale of two labels. Two Carl Hulse stories have featured the perjorative phrase "Big Oil" in their headlines; yet Hulse previously criticized the GOP for using the allegedly misleading phrase ...

Matt Bai: 'Racial Element' to GOP Attacks on Obama Harken Back to Willie Horton Ad

Times reporter Matt Bai: "Is there a racial element to some of the attacks on President Obama? It's pretty hard to argue there isn't....race and cultural otherness were powerful undercurrents in ...

Speaking of 'Tasteless'...Times Likens Lilac-Painted Baghdad Buildings to Suicide Bombings

And Iraqis thought they had it bad under Saddam Hussein: "Baghdad has weathered invasion, occupation, sectarian warfare and suicide bombers. But now it faces a new scourge: tastelessness." Back in ...

Former Times Reporter Egan Opines on GOP's 'Need for Greed' to Pass Paul Ryan's 'Radical' Medicare Plan

Former reporter Timothy Egan's takes an objective stance on Paul Ryan's Medicare plan: "Could you divide the country between greedy geezers and everyone else as a way to radically alter the social ...

Woe the Marital Woes of the (GOP) Candidates

Sheryl Gay Stolberg penned a story on the marital woes of presidential candidates that vaguely mentions Bill Clinton and ignores John Edwards, yet went into detail on the difficulties of ...

Moderate Sen. Lugar's Struggles With Tea Party Mark 'Identity Crisis' in GOP?

The paper's slanted Tea Party reporter Kate Zernike profiles one of the paper's favorite Republicans, Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana: "A Rhodes scholar and a former Navy officer, Mr. Lugar has ...

David Koch Gives to Libertarians, But George Soros Is Nonpartisan?

Double standards: Left-wing billionaire George Soros, nonpartisan? A Times photo caption reads "David H. Koch, top, has given generously to a libertarian group, and George Soros has donated ...

Times Watch Quotes of Note - Beware the 'Symbolic Phallus' of Summer Movie Season

Also, Matt Bai reveals his political sympathies in separate profiles of Mario Cuomo and Newt Gingrich, the Times suggests it's "ugly" to celebrate the death of a mass terrorist, and meet the new ...
Syndicate content